Truth Matters: Knowing God and Yourself
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Newcomers to the church community need tools to navigate the Christian faith and a guide for connecting spiritual teaching to real life. In a world that’s increasingly relative, author Andrew Petiprin helps readers discover unchanging truth based on God’s Word. Truth Matters shows how core tenants of the Christian faith were affirmed over the centuries by faithful biblical scholars. As he engages with great thinkers of Christian tradition, including C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot and others, Petiprin helps readers flourish in their faith by discovering the true answers to age-old questions like, Who is God? and Who am I?
Mirroring the structure of traditional creeds, Truth Matters helps readers better understand truths about themselves by understanding the truth about God and his desire for a relationship with us. As readers learn more about how doctrine was debated and decided, they will also see that Truth never changes, and that the purpose of doctrine is to make Truth clearer than before.
As it champions the authentic teachings of the Christian faith, Truth Matters points to doctrine, liturgy, and tradition as a way to discover not just the truth about God, but to find God himself.
This is a Logos Reader Edition. Learn more.
- Guides readers to put on the mind of Christ, leaning in to challenging questions
- Helps readers flourish in their faith by discovering the true answers to age-old questions
- Shows how core tenets of the Christian faith were affirmed over the centuries by faithful biblical scholars
- “I Believe in God”
- The Main Character
- The Impossible Union
- The Kerygma
- The Fire Within
- Are You Being Saved?
- Guaranteed Grace
- The Life of the World to Come
- Amen
In Truth Matters, Andrew Petiprin has woven an extraordinarily rich tapestry of hope, ideally suited for our perplexing times. Abounding in vibrant intellect and grounded in deep conviction, the book expertly weaves together the Creeds, the stories of the Israelites and the early church, and reflections from history and literature. An excellent and wide-ranging introduction to the beating heart of the faith.
—David Zahl, Director of Mockingbird Ministries; Editor-in-Chief of the Mockingbird blog
We live in an uncertain and constantly changing world, where we need stability of the deep truths of the Christian faith and the promise of God’s guaranteed grace more than ever. With insight, joy, clarity, wit, and wisdom, Andrew Petiprin guides us through the ancient doctrines that have served Christ’s church for centuries and shows how these truths connect to our lives.
—Justin S. Holcomb, Episcopal priest; seminary professor; author
Deeply personal, intellectually acute, biblically rooted, and spiritually passionate, Truth Matters is a conversionary primer of the Christian faith for all stages of belief. Petitprin writes with ease and seriousness, drawing the reader into the high stakes of God’s life and work in Christ, bringing them to bear on common life, but without sacrificing the profundity of their substance. An uncommonly good book for personal reading and group teaching.
—Ephraim Radner, Professor of Historical Theology, Wycliffe College, Toronto
- Title: Truth Matters: Knowing God and Yourself
- Author: Andrew Petiprin
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781945270932, 1945270934
- Resource ID: LLS:TRUTHMATTERS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-04T18:42:12Z